Playing Doom (Id)(MS-DOS) again in 2026 (❌👂)- it has been a long time

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After Snipe (Novell Lite) Doom was the first multiplayer game I ever played on PC. Doom was developed by id Software and released in December 1993 for MS‑DOS. The core creators included: John Carmack — engine programmer, John Romero — gameplay design, Tom Hall — early design work, Adrian Carmack — visual style, Kevin Cloud — textures and assets.

The team had previously built fast PC engines for Wolfenstein 3D, but Doom represented a major technical leap: Smooth first-person rendering on consumer PCs, larger and more complex levels, dynamic lighting effects, networked multiplayer (LAN deathmatch). We did so with NE2000 Novel Lite ISA cards with a coaxial cable running on MS-DOS/Windows 3.11/Windows95.

Our network had a variety of systems: I myself had initially had a 486-SX25 but that was upgraded quickly to a 486-DX2-66 (because of PCSPC+ and database work for my thesis) as did another friend. My roommate ran a 386-DX-40 and the 4th member ran a n AMD 386/486 clone system that was not really capable of running it – if only in a small window.

Hardware specs back in 1993 for the game were:
Intel 80386 — minimum
Intel 80486 — recommended

As the engine used fixed-point math, by avoiding floating-point instructions many machines without a FPU (386, 486SX) could run the game. When the Pentium became more main stream you’d see more games actually using the FPU more extensively.

Playability:
386DX 33 MHz playable
486SX 25–33 MHz good
486DX2-66 excellent

It’s quite funny how some things you absolutely don’t forget while other things get forgotten when playing a game like this again.
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